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The funding (led by existing investor Founders Fund, and Highland Capital Partners) will serve to scale manufacturing as the company prepares for the retail launch of the Leap Motion controller in the coming quarter. “Manufacturing is underway now,” according to a statement from the company, “and Leap Motion plans to make hundreds of thousands, to millions, of devices to meet unprecedented global demand.”

As I have written previously, the LEAP is a favorite of developers, more than 40,000 of which have applied for development kits. Bundling the controller with computers that have Leap Motion’s software and app store pre-loaded will create even more incentive to make products for the platform.

In today’s press releases, the company gives a little more detail on the precision and capabilities of its soon-to-be-released motion controller, “Leap Motion’s technology can track movements to 1/100th millimeter—smaller than the tip of a pin—with no visible lag time. The Leap Motion controller has a 150-degree field of view, and tracks individual hands and all 10 fingers at 290 frames per second.”

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